by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Anuj Kapilashrami, Suzanne Fustukian, Barbara McPake The Framework Convention on Global Health comes amid wider recognition of health inequalities and several recent calls for greater democratization of the world order. The framework suggests wider consensus on...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Sharifah Rahma Sekalala The proposed Framework Convention on Global Health envisages the imposition of a binding obligation on developed countries to assist developing countries in their quest to achieve the right to health for all their citizens. Looking at the...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Lance Gable, Ames Dhai, Robert Marten, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Jennifer Prah Ruger Global health governance continues to be a complex and challenging undertaking. A remarkably complicated patchwork of institutions at the international, national, and local levels...
by ghgovernance | Jan 21, 2016 | Complete Issues, Spring-Fall Combined 2015 Issue
By Brigit Toebes The proposed Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) is an important initiative that has the potential to place global health inequities more firmly on the international agenda. Ideally, it will become an instrument implemented by law and policy...
by ghgovernance | Jan 19, 2016 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security
By Patrick Jarkowsky, Young Voices Blog Seventy years ago, on December 11, 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Howard Walter Florey, and Ernest Boris Chain shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect...
by ghgovernance | Oct 30, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
By Gail Thornton In the opening chapter of his newly published book, The Peculiar Dynamics of Corruption, Dr. Omer Gokcekus, a pioneer in global research on corruption, shares a Turkish proverb that says a “fish stinks first at the head,” referring to the origin of...
by ghgovernance | Oct 22, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
By Anna Guryanova, Young Voices Blog Multinational corporations and global research institutes restlessly seek to excel their methods of data analysis and gathering by creating leading and innovative strategies in science and technology. In recent times, such...
by ghgovernance | Oct 13, 2015 | Asia
By Jingyi Hu, Young Voices Blog In June, the State Council issued a series of measures to accelerate the development of private hospitals. This new move toward healthcare reform aims to increase the competitiveness of private hospitals in order to alleviate the...
by ghgovernance | Aug 22, 2015 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
Blog by Yanzhong Huang, Editor of Global Health Governance and Senior Fellow for Global Health photo credit: Chinese flag in Shanghai via pixabay Despite higher government spending, public hospitals remain a hindrance to genuine healthcare reform in China, says...
by ghgovernance | Jun 11, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
By Tara Ornstein, Contributing Blogger The rabies virus is one of the most deadly viruses affecting both human and animal populations today. Every year, there are 60,000 deaths attributed to rabies, but global health experts believe that the actual number of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 21, 2015 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Pandemic Response
Blog by Sara Gorman, PhD, is an MPH candidate at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health photo credit: Logo of the World Health Organization via photopin There is a lot of talk about global health governance these days, especially in the wake of the Ebola...
by ghgovernance | Dec 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Maternal Health, United Nations, Young Voices
By Tara Ornstein September 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark convention on women’s rights. Over the last two months, UN member states and civil society organizations have accelerated their review of the progress...
by ghgovernance | Dec 3, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
By Thomas Hill The field of global health has expanded rapidly over the past decade and this has led it to be increasingly linked to the field of international development policy and practice. According to a United Nations Development and human rights for all report...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Spring-Autumn 2014
Desmond McNeill In Global Health Law Larry Gostin describes and analyses, with great authority and moral commitment, what law may be able to contribute to promoting the health of the world and especially those most disadvantaged. This book will surely serve as a...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | International Law, Spring-Autumn 2014
Suerie Moon The Ebola outbreak puts in clear focus central questions for the global health system: Who is responsible for getting the outbreak under control? What can and should be done by the governments of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and by international...
by ghgovernance | Nov 30, 2014 | Complete Issues, Spring-Autumn 2014
Rebecca J. Cook Larry Gostin’s book, Global Health Law, moves us to envision a world in which global health law and governance play a more effective role in reducing gross global health inequities. In so instructing and inspiring us, he gives an insightful overview of...
